Hanger for electric lamps



(No Model.)

H. A. FOSTER. HANGER FOR ELECTRIC LAMPS.

No. 449,153. Patented Mar. 31,1891.

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IIORATIO A. FOSTER, OF NE\V YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE THOMSON- HOUSTON ELECTRIC COMPANY, OF CONNECTICUT.

HANGER FOR ELECTRIC LAMPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,153, dated March 31, 1891.

Application filed August 1, 1890.

T0 alt whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, I-IORATIO A. FOSTER, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvementin Hangers for Electric Lamps, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hangers for supporting electric-arc lamps. Its purpose is to provide a cheap and simple device which may be readily attached toa building or other like support by being driven in or otherwise fastened to the wall of the building and guyed thereto.

The hanger is furnished with insulators for the lamp and conductors in circuit therewith, so that danger from the current at point-s within the building, as well as wasteful leakage, is avoided.

The accompanying sheet of drawings illustrates the preferred form of my improvement, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the hanger ,as used and lamp suspended therefrom. Fi 2 is a plan viewof the outer portion of the hanger, and Fig. 8 a plan view of the metallic cap before bending the holdingleaves around the insulators. Fig. 4 shows in side elevation and vertical section the metallic cap, and Fig. 5 shows side and plan views of the collar for supporting and insulating the conducting-leads.

The hanger, which as awhole is designated by A, consists of a main rod or pole of considerable strength, which will be of varying length, according to the distance from the building at which the lamp is to be hung. The inner end of this rod is adapted to be fastened to the wall or other support, and is herein shown sharpened to form a drivingt-ang, while at its outer extremity there is a cap-piece, from which the lamp is suspended. The rod may be of metal; but it usually is of wood with metallic end portions, the insulation thus gained being an additional safeguard against leaks to the building.

The cap-piece B has a socket K), into which fits the outer end of the hanger-rod, and four radiating leaves of. malleable material 0, (shown in Fig. 3,) each of which is bent into a Serial No. 360,685. (No model.)

loop around a grooved insulatorD of porcelain or other insulating material. In this way the insulators are firmly held in place, but can be individually replaced with ease if one or more become broken.

In the hanger shown there is provided, also, a collar E, (shown in detail in Fig. 5,) which encircles the rod and has two rings of malleable material bent around and holding insulators in the same manner as described above in connection with the cap -piece. Through these insulators pass the conductors leading to the lamp, and the purpose of this collar is to support as well as insulate these conductors.

The hanger is used in the following manner: The inner end of the pole is driven in or otherwise fastened to the side of the building, represented conventionally in Fig. l by the broken line a: The lamp F is hung from one of the insulators upon the cap-piece, and from others there extend guys H II, as many as necessary, which are herein shown connected to the wall at I.

It will be understood that the specific mechanical features described may be modified in various ways without avoidingthe general nature of my invention, which consists in providing a light strong hanger adapted to be secured at one end to a building and guyed thereto, the hanger being so provided with in.-

sulators that the lamp and conductings-leads,

are all well insulated from the building.

lVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of the hanger for electric lamps, having one end fastened to a building or like support and provided with an insulated point of attachment for the lamp, with a guy wire or wires attached to and sustaining its outer end by means of one or more insulators, as described.

2. A hanger for electric lamps, consisting of a rod or pole having a driving-tang at one end and a cap-piece at the other end, provided with insulators to which the lamp and supporting guy-wires are to be attached.

3. The hanger for supporting and insulating are lights and conducting-leads, comprising a supporting rod or pole, a grooved closed ring-insulator, and an attaching part having 5. The combination of the hanger-rod proa socket embracing the pole and a malleable vided with a drivlng uang at one end and inclanip bent around the insulator. sulators for insulating the lamp and conduct- 4. A hanger for electric lamps, consisting ing-leads from the building to which the x5 5 of a rod or pole provided with a driving-tang hanger is to be attached, with the guy-Wires at one end, a cap-piece at its other end, havfor snstainingthe outer end of the hanger, as ing leaves of malleable materialbent around described.

and holding suitable insulators, and the col- IIORATIO A. FOSTER. lar having insulators through which the con- \Vitnesses: xo ductors leading to the lamps are adapted to JOHN J. MOORE,

pass. ZANDER SNYDER. 

